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(No Model.)

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No. 431,200. Patented July 1,1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ONEALL WVATSON, OF ORAlVFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

CORN-POPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,200, dated July 1, 1890.

Application filed December 10, 1889. Serial lilo. 333,258. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ONEALL WATSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Crawfordsville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Corn-Popper, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention has relation to corn-poppers and among the objects in view are to provide an inexpensive convenient popper and means for constantly agitating or rotating the same, whereby the unpopped grains are always presented to the fire.

\Vith these general objects in view the invention consists in a cylinder or corn-receptacle provided at one end with a socket in which is mounted one end of a spirally grooved'rod, provided at its opposite end with a loose handle, and in a sleeve mounted on the rod and loosely fitting the same and adapted to be reciprocated upon said rod, thereby oscillating the rod and the popping-cylinder.

The invention consists in other minor features of. construction hereinafter specified, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of a corn-popper constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

The popping-cylinder 1 is composed of opposite heads 2 and 3,each of which is preferably oast and provided with an annular surrounding flange l, said flanges being conneoted by a series of connecting-wires 5,whereby they are spaced apart. The wall 6 of the cylinder is preferably of Wire-netting, and is mounted between the flanges of the two castmetal heads, and is connected to the wires 5 at intervals by means of tie-wires '7.

The upper head 2 is provided with a hinged cover 8, which provides means for the introduction of the corn Within the cylinder and with subsequent emptying of the cylinder.

The outer surface of the opposite head 3 is at its center provided with a socket 9, in which terminates one end of a rod 10, said rod being preferably made removable from the socket, though snugly fitting the same. The rod 10 is in this instance formed of sufficiently heavy sheet metal longitudinally twisted into spiral form, as shown at 11.

The opposite or outer extremity of the rod 10 is reduced to form aspindle 12 in line with the'longitudinal axis of said rod, and'npon this spindle there is mounted loosely a handle 18, maintained in position upon the spindle by means of a washer and nut or other similar device.

14. represents a sleeve centrally and longitudinallybored, as at 15, the bore of the sleeve receiving the rod 10, and said sleeve being mounted for reciprocation upon the rod between the popping-cylinder and the handle. The inner end of the sleeve is provided with a diametrical recess 16, and in said recess there is inserted a diametrical metallic plate 17, having an elongated slot 18, coinciding with the shape of the rod 10 in transverse section.

From the above description the operation of my invention will be apparent, and may be briefly stated as follows: The corn is introduced into the cylinder through the opening, shown covered by the hinged cover 8, after which said cover is lowered and a catch 19 swung over the same. The handle is grasped by one hand of the operator and the reciprocating sleeve with the other and the cylinder introduced over the fire. The sleeve is now reciprocated back and forth, and the rod is oscillated or partially reciprocated in alternate directions, and with it the popping-cylinder. As the grains are popped, they,being lightest, rise or seek the center of the cylinder, while the nnpopped grains, being the heaviest, are by centrifugal force thrown to the outer wall of the cylinder, and consequently are presented to the fire for popping, while at the same time they serve-to shield the already-popped grains against burning.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The popping-cylinder having the opposite heads the outer one of which is provided with a hinged cover and the inner one thereof having the socket 9, oblong in cross-section, in combination with the sheet-metal spirallytwisted rod 11,terminating at one end in the untwisted portion snugly, but removably in the socket, and at its opposite end in the cylindrical reduced bearing-spindle 12, the han- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as dle 13, centrally bored to loosely receive the my own I have hereto affixed my signature in 10 spindle, and the sleeve 14, centrally bored to presence of two witnesses. loosely receive the rod and having one of its 5 ends transversely recessed, as at 16, and the ONEALL \VATSON' plate 17, mounted in the recess and provided Witnesses: with a slot for the passage of the spirally- HARVEY YARYAN, twisted rod, substantially as specified. LEW FISHER. 

